The reason Abraham Lincoln gave for fighting the Civil War before the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is "to preserve the Union"
100
US Strategy to prevent Communism from spreading to new countries.
What is containment?
100
Supreme Court that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and struck down segregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
Battle that brought the United States into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
Island that Americans sympathized with and wanted to see freed from Spanish rule.
What is Cuba?
200
The Union plan to blockade Confederate ports and advance down the Mississippi River to cut the Confederacy in two
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
Location where the US fought a war to try to stop the spread of communism.
What is Korea OR Vietnam?
200
Group of black students that volunteered to desegregate Central High School in Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock 9?
200
When a single leader or political party controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people.
What is Totalitarianism?
200
Acquisition by a government of other governments or territories, or of economic or cultural power over other nations or territories, often by force.
What is imperialism?
300
Term for northern Democrats who opposed fighting the Civil War
What are Copperheads?
300
Crisis where the US and Britain fly supplies into the German capital city in response to Stalin cutting off all land travel to the city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
Group of people who rode on buses from Washington DC to New Orleans to defy segregation laws.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
300
Granting concessions to an enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace.
What is appeasement?
300
Three islands that America gains control over after its victory over Spain.
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam?
400
Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware
What are the Border States?
400
US recovery plan to assist Europe in recovery from WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
Law signed by President Johnson that banned segregation and discrimination in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
400
Gave Roosevelt the power to sell, lend, or give equipment to any country he decided needed help. Gave $40 billion in supplies to the Allies, including Britain and the Soviet Union
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
News reporting that stretched the truth, exaggeration, and sensationalism.
What is Yellow Journalism?
500
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
500
Term that describes reckless, extreme, charges against people. Named after a US Senator that led a search for Communists in government.
What is McCarthyism?
500
Banned the Poll Tax
What is the 24th Amendment?
500
The Dr that led the Manhattan Project, the program that created the atomic bomb.
Who is Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer?
500
The names of the THREE diplomacy strategies of Presidents T. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, and Moral Diplomacy?